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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 12/02/2026

The collapse of the USSR was such a horrific disaster for the world at large. There's literally nothing to stop the US and the West on their genocidal rampaging and imperialist destruction. Cuba has suffered the consequences of the collapse the most. Be there a hell, Gorbachev and Yeltsin are there.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Apparently everyone forget what the “materialist” bit meant

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

That I’m one of the first really revolutionary-minded marxists to actually latch onto enactive cognition, which cites Hegel and various marxists on the regular, is a huge condemnation of our theoretical and philosophical groundings. Why spend another year rehashing old western marxist beefs?

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We all know the “three sources & component parts” of Marxism, but I’d argue that there is a fourth. That being the natural sciences, which Marx and Engels always made a concerted effort to engage with. You can argue all day about their success, but if reality isn’t dualistic, neither are dialectics

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I’ve been on a big enactive cognition kick which is clearly infecting my reading of Hegel because I see Hegelians give hot takes about Marxism and materialism and just think “oh this person doesn’t know enactive cognition exists”

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I really need to finish Linguistic Bodies because I want to better understand all the recent Hegelian enactive papers.

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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

An Enactive Account of Labor - Andrea Gambarotto www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmP...

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An Enactive Account of Labor - Andrea Gambarotto

YouTube video by International Friends of Ilyenkov

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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Two new open-access articles from Andrea Gambarotto and collaborators: Enactivizing dialectics: from individual to social normativity and back (w/ Thomas van Es): link.springer.com/article/10.1... Habit: a Hegelian-enactive dialogue (w/ Ezequiel A. Di Paolo): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Habit: a Hegelian-enactive dialogue - Synthese

Synthese - Enactive perspectives on habit reject mechanistic models and call attention to the neglect of this concept in computational approaches to the mind. Recent work has brought enactive views...

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The phrase “bringing forth a world” is not incorrect per se but it is misleading if interpreted literally, as anyone is wont to do. The world exists, if not “independently” from us per se, then certainly in our absence.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

judging by some of the papers on realism that I’m seeing in enactive circles, it would probably do them a lot of good to read “Materialism and Empirio-Criticism” and replace the occasional word or phrase with something appropriately sensorimotor-ish.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I wonder how many philosophers and theorists have seriously examined their epistemological presuppositions in light of enactive cognition

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It’s very funny how many Marxists still insist Engels was wrong to see dialectics in science, meanwhile scientists have been using dialectics for decades and are only doing it more and more

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I’m not saying one should return to humanist marxism as defined, I have my critiques there too (it never escapes the subject/structure divide enactivism and Marx both escape either), but it certainly seems more practically close to modern science than anti-humanism.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

That I’ve seen someone who I consider generally pretty intelligent call Ilyenkov a “humanist” as an insult more or less confirms my suspicion. There are unexamined epistemological presuppositions here. Talk about needing a symptomatic reading.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Anti-humanism sought to purge Marxism of everything which did not fit with the representational epistemology which dominated science at the time. In so doing, it epistemologically froze itself, digging its own grave (and setting the stage for poststructuralist idealism)

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It becomes clear, when performing that thought experiment, that Marx’s critique of political economy would be self-contradictory without an enactive and deeply historical view of humans and their capacity for labor. The very view anti-humanism calls unscientific and humanist.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The “epistemological break” is not a break of epistemology, but of scale. When you read labor through enaction, you get something remarkably close to a labor theory of value, just with the word “enacted cognition” instead of “labor.”

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Marx was, himself, a proto-enactivist, which lines him up with modern science, and yet it is precisely his ideas which align with enactive cognition which anti-humanists call “humanist” or “idealist.” That’s the whole reasoning for the “epistemological break” thesis.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

My thing with anti-humanist Marxism is that it claims to be the “science” Marxism is supposed to be in opposition to humanism, and yet in light 21st century science on the topic of cognition, its claim to scientific accuracy is unsustainable. Enactive cognition ensures that.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This isn’t to dismiss western marxist philosophy altogether by any means, just that it, as a rule of thumb, has a very clear limitation in terms of presupposed cognitive models

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Further thought: Marx was the first true enactive thinker of western philosophy (pre-marxist eastern philosophy already has a long tradition of proto-enactivism). This makes computational or representational cognition revisionism. It betrays Marx’s methodology

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Vygotsky and Ilyenkov have both been cited by name by enactivists. Tran-Duc-Thao has an extremely enactive phenomenology. Mao was all about practice being the source of knowledge. Kim Il-sung’s political philosophy was undeniably 4E too, despite Juche’s anthropocentrism.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Thought: The difference between western marxists and eastern marxists is that the former had representational views of cognition (the subject/structure dualism they insisted exists is inherently representationalist) whereas the latter had proto-4E views of cognition.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

If one follows the ontological commitments of enactive cognition to the factory floor and to the market, Marx’s economics emerge, fully-formed

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

the ontological commitments of enactive cognition are mutually antagonistic with the core presuppositions of neoclassical economics, particularly homo economicus. When you try to immanently examine homo economicus via enactivism, you just produce Marx’s Labor Theory of Value via enacted labor

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

“Concrete and abstract labor” as used by Marx is virtually identical to “enacted cognition” as used by enactive cognitive theorists. They’re theorizing the same thing on different levels of abstraction. The main point to note is that not all enaction is “socially necessary” as such

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☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

We really need to disabuse ourselves in this society of the notion that "speech" is just "ideas" and therefore harmless. Language is the greatest persuasive tool that we have, and those with large platforms don't just hurt feelings but can also motivate violent action with their words.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

i open this app apparently at the exact moment it’s going to shit

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

i have gotten at least 70% more maoist since the last time i was here. i have also gotten at least 50% less stupid

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

boy i sure do never post here huh

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

dawg read a book or something lmao

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I do, ultimately, feel empathy for those who wanted to feel hopeful about Syria. I personally, deep down, hoped against hope things would somehow turn out fine, even if I knew they wouldn’t But I’m not gonna forget the slander against those who were pointing out the realities, including me

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Bruh there is no way y’all are still defending these mfs as they’re actively killing Syrian minorities as we speak

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

tbh, it’s not even shocking he comes from a privileged background. incoherent as his politics are, he’s clearly on some level a class traitor, and class traitors against the bourgeoisie are often those most willing to take action

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Videos coming from Syria of executions of minorities. People are excusing it by acting as though those being killed were pro-Assad To say this is highly reminiscent of the rhetoric used to justify the deaths of Palestinians because they’re “Hamas” is an understatement

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

i’m trans. reporting this story nearly killed me. had to stop drinking and wound up on many friends “call to see if she’s ok” lists. please share it. (i’m ok now that it is done.)

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

liberals will literally call you a tankie for having a position you’ve already been vindicated on

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

? I’ve literally been vindicated by every single thing that has happened in Syria since

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